jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: jsonReader / reading "nonstandard" JSON http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/jsonreader-reading-nonstandard-json Simple:Press Version 5.7.5.3 ronchalant on jsonReader / reading "nonstandard" JSON http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/jsonreader-reading-nonstandard-json#p24044 Help http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/jsonreader-reading-nonstandard-json#p24044 I actually found a solution for this - adding ajaxGridOptions to my grid config options and using the dataFilter:

ajaxGridOptions: {
  dataFilter : function(data, type) {
    if (typeof(data) === 'string' && type === 'json') {
      data = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
    }
    return convert(data);
  }
}

the "convert" function takes whatever I received from the AJAX call and converts it to the jqGrid standard with rows / cell / etc.  The interesting thing is that regardless of setting the datatype to JSON it seems to always pass in and want returned a string value.  So I have to parse the JSON string, convert to a new object, then stringify the converted object before returning it.

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:39:32 +0300 ronchalant on jsonReader / reading "nonstandard" JSON http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/jsonreader-reading-nonstandard-json#p24043 Help http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/jsonreader-reading-nonstandard-json#p24043 Is there a way using the jsonReader or maybe with an event that a JSON object returned from an AJAX call can be translated into something the jqGrid can understand?

We have standard JSON objects gen'd from data model classes that I can return sort of like this:

{

   items: [

{ fname: 'Jon', lname: 'Doe', homeAddress: { address1: '123 Main St.', city: 'Sometown', ... }, status: { id: 1, description: 'active' } },

{ fname: 'Jane', lname: 'Doe', homeAddress: { address1: '123 Main St.', city: 'Sometown', ... }, status: { id: 1, description: 'active' } },

 ...

   ]

}

Which is totally non-conformant... is there a way/place I can inject a function in JS to convert it?  I tried modifying the "success" function of the xhr via the loadBeforeSend(xhr) event, but it didn't like it.

I'm using 3.8.2 for now, btw.

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